It’s My Blogoversary!

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by. I am one excited kitty today. I can hardly believe it, but I have been blogging for one whole year. That’s a long time in the life of a cat! When I first started blogging, I never really gave it a thought as to why I was doing it and it has been a bit of a walk down memory lane figuring it all out. But, before I get started (I might get long-winded) please help yourselves to some refreshments.

Last year, mom was recovering from surgery and going through chemotherapy. She was writing for her two other blogs, Horse Buzz A-Z and Savvy Pet Care, as well as the rescue’s blog. She had joined BlogPaws in June of 2013 for the Savvy Pet Care website and was participating in the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. I think when she started following some of those blogs, she decided we needed to do something fun. And we thought I could do a lot of good for the rescue as their Advo-CAT.

Mom started my Facebook page on August 18, 2014. She was working on setting up the blog at the same time and I published my first post on August 24th. I joined the BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop that week and I got my very first comment on the blog — from a woofie! My very first commenter was Miley’s Daily Scoop. On that same post, Miss Emily, from Kitty Cat Chronicles, was the first to reach out and offer the new cat on the block help if I needed it. We knew right then that the people involved in this community were going to be super!

About the time I started my blog, mom was pretty tired from the chemo and she knew we were going to have to move. She didn’t know what the future of Horse Buzz A-Z and Savvy Pet Care would be so she stopped writing those blogs and we concentrated on having fun on mine. She started a Pinterest account the end of August and said that was it. No more social media for Christy Paws. Then came Twitter in October, just before we moved.

In September, circumstances made it possible for mom to retire and for us to begin our move to northern California, next door to her best friend, Kelly. Mom had always planned to retire here but had no idea it would be so soon. Mom wanted to get most of our stuff moved in October, in case the weather turned bad, but she had to go back down to southern California until mid-November to finish her chemo. Aunt Kelly took care of us for those three weeks until mom was finally able to bring the last load of stuff up and RELAX.

Whew! My head is spinning just thinking about all I’ve done. But the best part of this year is you — all the new friends I’ve made. I set out to lighten things up for mom and have fun. I hope I’ve accomplished that, at least a little bit, and you’ve had fun with me.

As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to celebrate the year by doing a comment-a-thon for A-Pal Humane Society. Mom will donate $.50 (up to $100) for every comment left on this post by Sunday. Next Monday, she will announce the amount of the donation.

Thank you so much to all of you for being here and being a part of my celebration, today and every day!

Hi Christy, really nice to meet you!
You have had quite a first year and we hope you have lots more fun in the coming years.
We agree that the Cat Blogosphere is filled with the nicest people.
Happy 1st Blogoversary!
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ

Happy Blogaversary!! You’ve had quite a year. This post and your donation are a beautiful way to mark the end of your blog’s first year! Wishing you many more years of happy blogging!
Love & Biscuits,
Dogs Luv Us and We Luv Them

Happy blogoversary! What a worldwind year for you. I didn’t know anything about the CB until I was blogging for a couple of years and Blogpaws wasn’t even invented. Likewise we didn’t have Pinterest or IG, which I still don’t have. Thanks for including Plush CK.

Hello! This is the first time we have visited. It’s very nice to meet you. We are a large, mixed family of four kitties, one woofie and two horsies that live in France. We see you have had quite the year and would like to wish you a Very Happy Blogoversary!

Concatulations on your first Blogoversary. Mom & I have just recently started following your blog and enjoy reading about you and all your family. Looking forward to learning more your adventures.
Scout Charles

Deerest Christy an lady ava: iss Monday an wee are late an mee iss sorry!! LadyMum was out yesterday at thee Feral Kat group get together…
Can you pleeze cunt our vote???? Pleeze????
Wee fink you an yur Mumma are tHE BESTEST!
Sendin mee LadyMum that card cheered her up so much!You make a BIG difference!!! Both of youss’.
Conkatss on yur ferst Bloggie-versary~
***paw kissesss*** Siddhartha Henry an ((hugs)) LadyMum xxxxxxxxx

Christy Paws, what a great year you have had. You really have accomplished so much. You should be quite proud of yourself. We wish you a most meowvolous first blogoversary and know that you will be around for a very long time, doing good for others as well as entertaining us. Love and hugs to your mom from ours. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
p.s. We tweeted about the comment-a-thon.

Whew!! I can barely catch my breath from all of the excitement of your past year!!! HUGE CONCATULATIONS TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have accomplished sooooooooooo much and we are thrilled to be along for the ride!
HAPPY HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY!!catchatwithcarenandcody

Meowee Christy Paws…happy 1st blogoversary! You’ve done so much to be proud of fur shore. Me, I totally missed mine which was last month…ooops! And I still haven’t even gotten to 100 posts yet. Looking forward to more fun times ahead and purray the fires go away real soon! =^,,^=

We sure do wish you a very Happy Blogoversary. Our Mom had to have all that Chemo too so she knows what a hard time your Mom has had. Good for her to doing all this blogging stuff. We sure are glad you started and enjoy your blog a lot. It is great that you are doing a commentathon. We love doing all we can for the rescues. You all have one great day.